FROM Australia’s Bondi Beach to the streets of New Delhi, authorities across Asia ramped up efforts this weekend to stem the coronavirus amid fears of a second wave of infections in places where outbreaks had appeared under control.
Tighter travel restrictions were imposed in several countries while Malaysia deployed its army to enforce a partial lockdown as the number of cases in the region soared past 95,000 – a third of the world’s infections, an AFP tally shows.